I love listening to NPR in the car but I actually found this article on their health blog. Childhood obesity has been a growing problem through out the years-especially in the United States. This program called the Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program and it helps families deal with what types of foods are healthy for kids to consume on a daily basis. Not only does this program help kids make the right choice about what they should be eating, but it reminds them that daily exercise and staying active is essential to live a healthy life. These parents signed their kids up for this six month program because they're in the highest percentile for BMI. It's awesome that there are programs like this to help kids but also a little scary because of how bad obesity within children has been getting! According to the CDC, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years! That is absolutely insane!!! To find out more about childhood obesity and how to help prevent it, here are a few factual websites!
http://www.cdc.gov/
Childhood obesity is really so sad. I know that to a certain extent, children are born into families who suffer from obesity. But what about the kids that aren't? Those parents who give their kids unhealthy foods are really damaging their children's health for the rest of their lives. How selfish?!
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